First off, I have only ever had one Maxtor drive fail on me and it was an OLD 20gig drive that had been "rode hard and put up wet". I have always been loyal to them because of the reliability and value that they represent. I have owned many other drives from the various other companies, but my heart has always belonged to Maxtor. It's dissapointing to see them done away with. I'm just glad that I picked up two of their 6L300s last week, while I could still buy more than just a name.

5200rpm?

thanks for the tip. Now I know what not to recommend. I doubt seage will improve what cannot be improved on these cheap and lousy drives (non-SCSI).

OMG Seagate is letting some Maxtor engineers put their tech in Seagate drives? There goes the reliability factor of Seagate drives -_-

Maxtor hard drives have always been the poor mans special, this really isn't any different. Trading reliability and overall life expectency for speed and price.

In a sense, it's disappointing that Seagate is keeping the Maxtor brand alive in name only.

You mean it's sad that we've lost the joke of the magnetic storage world? Yeap, abnormally high failure rates were hilarious. Actually, they kind of were.

It's too bad Seagate didn't do this years ago before we lost Quantum.

Amen to the first 2 posts.

In my experience Maxtor drives have been failing QA checks for years. Good riddance to them and their technology; I just hope they don't infect Seagate.

I wouldn't be surprised if the new Maxtor drives will be Seagate drives that fall a little short on the QA testing. Probably will end up more reliable than current Maxtors, at any rate.